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What a treat! I get to cast my movie! Since this will never happen in real life, I can have anyone I want, so here goes:Visit Nancy Kress's website, and follow her on Twitter and Facebook.
For Marianne Jenner, sixty-ish geneticist, I want Helen Mirren. Helen is older than Marianne and British rather than American, but she can play anything. Hell, to have Helen Mirren, I’d make Marianne younger, British, whatever. For Helen Mirren, who I would watch recite the phone book if phone books still existed, I would rewrite the entire trilogy.
For Colonel Jason Jenner, late thirties, handsome and very earnest, I need someone who can portray strong-silent-type stress from the burden he’s carrying (basically, the survival of civilization). Ryan Gosling, maybe? DiCaprio is too old.
For Jason’s second-in-command, the reserved and frighteningly competent Major Elizabeth Duncan, I want...[read on]
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--Marshal Zeringue
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